Rathduff ogham stones

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The Oghamstones of Rathduff , ( Irish An Ráth Dubh , "the black Ráth ") are in the cemetery of the medieval church of Ballinvoher ( Baile an Bhóthair ), northeast of Annascaul , on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland .

The two ogham stones are hidden behind older grave structures. One is a cross stone with Oghamin script . It is 0.94 m high and 0.27 m wide. The Oghamin script has suffered some damage, but one reads S (I) D (A) N (I) MAQQ (I) DALA. The west side bears a cross in a circle with a shaft that continues below and above the circle and has other crosses.

The second stone lies stretched out on the west side of another grave structure. The rectangular sandstone is 1.3 m long, 0.33 m wide and 0.12 m thick. There are two interpretations for the label: LLONNOCC MAQQ (...) and SONNOCC MAQQ (...), where Maqq stands for son (of).

The east-west oriented menhir ( English standing stone ) of Rathduff stands on a ridge, the westwardly extending Flemingstown mountain on a pasture, about 500 m northeast of the Oghamsteine. The pointed, probably broken stone is about 3.25 m high, 1.0 m wide and 0.7 m thick at the base. The ground around the base has been worn away by cattle, but the intact wedge stones are enough to hold it up

literature

  • Robert AS Macalister: Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Volume 1 Black Rock. Four Courts Press, Dublin 1996, ISBN 1-85182-242-9 .
  • Damian MacManus: A guide to Ogam. Maynooth Monograph No. 4, An Sagart, Maynooth 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 6.6 "  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 41.7"  W.